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 NORTH DAKOTA 505 of the State Committee of the Woman's Division of the Na- tional Council of Defense. LEGISLATIVE ACTION. From the time the convention for statehood failed to put equal suffrage into the constitution the Women's Christian Temperance Union kept up the agitation for it. In every Legislature a suffrage bill was introduced and its president, Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson, attended each ses- sion. Although working separately, Mrs. Anderson and the suffrage legislative committees were always in perfect harmony. In 1911 the Union had a resolution introduced to submit a woman suffrage amendment to the State constitution. Mrs. Dar- row and Mrs. de Lendrecie of the State Suffrage League lobbied for it. It was lost in the Senate by 23 to 25 votes; referred to the Committee on Woman Suffrage in the House, which recom- mended indefinite postponement and the report was accepted by 54 ayes, 42 noes. 1913. The Legislative Committee consisted of Mrs. Darrow, Mrs. Fannie D. Quain, Mrs. Ella C. Boise and Miss Ward. Two suffrage measures drawn up by Senator R. M. Pollock passed both Houses. The resolution for an amendment to the State constitution, which would have to pass two consecutive Legisla- tures before submission to the voters, received in the Senate 31 . 19 noes; in the House 79 ayes, 29 noes; 5 absent. A legis- lative bill, which would go to the voters at the next election, re- d in the Senate, 27 ayes, 22 noes; i absent; in the House, ayes : i no. Another bill introduced at this same session, was passed in the Senate by 41 to 9 and indefinitely postponed in the House. 5. Legislative Committee Mrs. Darrow, Mrs. Quain and Mrs. Wei Me. It is a significant fact that of the nearly 800 introduced every one had honest treatment, passed or failed 'ii roll call or was indefinitely postponed by vote, except the one which vitally affected the women. The concurrent reso- i for a woman suffrage amendment, which had passed the slature of 1913 and had to be ratified by that of 1915, d in the Senate on February 13 by 31 ayes. 15 noes, more than twn IM one, and the so-called "clincher" applied to it which VOL. VI
 * ding that the question be submitted to a vote of the women,